J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
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I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.
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It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.
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The destruction of the atom the split of it, in modern physics seemed to me to be the same as the destruction of the world.. ..science to me appeared to be dead: its most important basis was only a lunacy, a mistake perpetrated by learned men.. ..who blindly mistook one object for another.
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My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
